Image reconstruction from few views by L0-norm optimization
This addresses the issue of over-smoothing low-contrast structures in medical imaging for researchers and practitioners in CT reconstruction, though it appears incremental.
The paper tackled the problem of few-view CT reconstruction by proposing a new algorithm based on L0-norm optimization of gradient-magnitude images, which improved reconstruction quality compared to the standard L1-norm total variation method.
The L1-norm of the gradient-magnitude images (GMI), which is the well-known total variation (TV) model, is widely used as regularization in the few views CT reconstruction. As the L1-norm TV regularization is tending to uniformly penalize the image gradient and the low-contrast structures are sometimes over smoothed, we proposed a new algorithm based on the L0-norm of the GMI to deal with the few views problem. To rise to the challenges introduced by the L0-norm DGT, the algorithm uses a pseudo-inverse transform of DGT and adapts an iterative hard thresholding (IHT) algorithm, whose convergence and effective efficiency have been theoretically proven. The simulation indicates that the algorithm proposed in this paper can obviously improve the reconstruction quality.